From April 1-2, thousands of track and field athletes from 110 colleges and universities as well as high schools and unaffiliated programs will swarm to The Farm for the 41 st annual Stanford Invitational — a meet which offers qualifying opportunities for the NCAA preliminaries and for the US Olympic Team Trials. The Cardinal are looking to carry their success from a strong indoor season into outdoor competition. Stanford totaled five top four finishers at the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships from March 11-12, including a third in the women’s DMR and a fourth in the men’s DMR. Additionally, junior Sean McGorty finished second in the 3000 meters and sophomore decathlete and Stanford record holder Harrison Williams, finished fourth in the heptathlon. Although freshman heptathlete Brittany McGee is currently healing from an injury and won’t be competing this weekend, she is still looking forward to the competition. “The whole team has been telling us that this meet is like no other that we will attend. The atmosphere is supposed to be like nothing else,” McGee said. “I’ve heard that all of our bleachers will be filled, people will line the fence around the track and the cheering will be so loud during races that you’ll barely be able to hear yourself think. Not only that, but it also has some top level competition that we don’t even have to leave campus to compete against.” Freshman Lucas Ege agrees that having the meet at
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